2 MARRIOTT HOTELS PLANNED FOR SUBURBS

David IbataCHICAGO TRIBUNE

Marriott Corp. disclosed plans Wednesday for two more midrange hotels in the Chicago suburbs, including a facility that will become the second hotel at Marriott`s Lincolnshire Resort in north suburban Lincolnshire.

The additional ''Courtyard by Marriott'' properties, averaging 150 rooms and costing $10 million each to build, will bring to five the number of hotels to be opened in the Chicago area this year by the Washington, D.C.-based Marriott.

Construction will begin in April of a Courtyard on the east side of Milwaukee Avenue (U.S. Hwy. 45/Ill. Hwy. 21) about a half mile south of Ill. Hwy. 22 in Lincolnshire.

The hotel is to be at the entrance to Marriott`s Lincolnshire, a 170-acre resort centered on a conventional, 400-room Marriott Hotel with a dinner theater, health club, swimming pool, restaurants and golf course.

''The two properties are compatible,'' said Francis W. Cash, executive vice president of Marriott Corp.

''The modest-price Courtyard appeals to the transient business traveler, while the (conventional) Marriott goes after group business and the more upscale traveler who needs such amenities as restaurants and bellmen,'' Cash said.

A Courtyard will be started in March on Diehl Road about three-fourths of a mile west of Naperville Road in west suburban Naperville. The Lincolnshire and Naperville hotels are to open by year`s end.

The first Courtyards here opened over the last two weeks at 100 W. Algonquin Rd., Arlington Heights, and at 800 Lake Cook Rd., Deerfield. A third is scheduled to open in May on TransAm Boulevard north of Butterfield Road in west suburban Oakbrook Terrace.

Each Courtyard will charge nightly room rates of $60 during the week and $45 on weekends and will have an enclosed swimming pool, a 100-seat restaurant and lounge, two conference rooms and guest rooms opening off a central courtyard.

Marriott is seeking additional hotel sites near O`Hare International Airport, along the North Shore, in the Elk Grove Village-Itasca area and in Oak Brook.

''We hope to have six to eight (Courtyards) in Chicago in the next three years and 12 to 15 properties within 50 miles of the city over the next six to seven years,'' Cash said.

Marriott plans to spend $2 billion over the next five years opening more than 300 Courtyards with more than 50,000 rooms nationwide, he said.